How has the question about using the army in the struggle for
requisitioning grain been decided? If it has been decided
affirmatively, how will the thing be arranged officially—
X
by way of an
agreement with the Commissariat for Military Affairs or by the issue of a
decree?[1]

It is very important to know this, for today Kudinsky has been
arrested (apparently by Comrade Dzerzhinsky’s Commission); our
work threatens to come to a complete stop.